Changes for the LGW long haul network for summer 2011, announced today alongside the HND and EZE news.

Barbados - 10 weekly to 12 weekly
Antigua - five weekly to six weekly
St Lucia / Port of Spain - five weekly to daily
Tampa - five weekly to daily
Cancun - two weekly to three weekly

One decrease is Orlando, which goes from nine weekly to daily. Is Orlando suffering at the moment? Aren't VS reducing their capacity to A330s soon?

I'm surprised to see no changes to the Male and Sharm el Sheikh routes. I was also hoping Mauritius would move to LGW next summer to make way for further long haul growth at LHR.

No news on LGW short haul yet. Any predictions? I'd be interested to hear if Antalya, Izmir and Paphos are coming back as they're stopping for the winter next month (all three routes have been year round in previous years).

Any reason why BA haven't moved their PLS/NAS service to Gatwick? Does the service warrant demand to be at Heathrow? My thoughts as the service is operated on a B767-300 is there not a large demand for it to move to LGW and operate on a 777?

Quoting PBOA380FAN (Reply 16):Any reason why BA haven't moved their PLS/NAS service to Gatwick? Does the service warrant demand to be at Heathrow? My thoughts as the service is operated on a B767-300 is there not a large demand for it to move to LGW and operate on a 777?

A) The 767s are Heathrow based
B) both of those services continue on to GCM which a business route, not leisure...think banking.
c) While the GCM route is very profitable as a 767 a move to a 772 and to LGW would kill it. GCM is nice little $ secret that BA has. Look for this to become a 788 route.

When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No-one has ever collided with the sky.

Quoting PBOA380FAN (Reply 16):Any reason why BA haven't moved their PLS/NAS service to Gatwick? Does the service warrant demand to be at Heathrow? My thoughts as the service is operated on a B767-300 is there not a large demand for it to move to LGW and operate on a 777?

I've also heard that the 777 may be limited when operating into the shorter runways at PLS and GCM.

Quoting planesarecool (Reply 13):This route will also now receive FIRST class on four days of the week. Looks like an extra 4-class aircraft will move over to Gatwick doing the UVF flights as well as BGI/GND on Sunday.

POS is probably the market for which the FIRST product is being targeted. When BA did POS from LGW via BGI on some days the flights had FIRST - correspondingly the daily BGI terminator flights on those days had 3-class aircraft.

Quoting trintocan (Reply 18):POS is probably the market for which the FIRST product is being targeted. When BA did POS from LGW via BGI on some days the flights had FIRST - correspondingly the daily BGI terminator flights on those days had 3-class aircraft.

Good to see the various route expansions.

Now if they would jsut take a risk (if you can even call it) on BZE like they did with UVF some years ago...they could finish locking up the former colonies.

When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No-one has ever collided with the sky.

Good news for Cancun, great leisure destination now offering a scheduled service once again. I remember BA serving Cancun afew years on a DC-10......along with Havana. Both routes stopped for some reason. Perhaps at that time there wasnt the demand like now.